Question

I currently have this

last_modified = xhr.getResponseHeader('Last-Modified');

/* Last-Modified: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:47:09 GMT */

However, for the timeago plugin i need this format

<abbr class="timeago" title="2008-07-17T09:24:17Z">July 17, 2008</abbr>

What would be the most easy and bulletproof way to convert?

Answer 1

Try this using javascript as follows:

For the Title part:

    var dateObj = new Date(last_modified);
    var newDate = dateObj .getFullYear() + "-" + dateObj.getMonth() + "-" + dateObj.getDate() + "T" + dateObj.getHours() + ":" + dateObj.getMinutes() + ":" + dateObj.getSeconds() + "Z"; 

For the “July 17, 2008” part:

    var m_names = new Array("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December");
    var dateObj = new Date(last_modified);
    var anotherDate = m_names[dateObj.getMonth()] + " " + dateObj.getDate() + ", " + dateObj.getFullYear();